Walter Shapiro

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

He didn't. This is the Times being gullible. It took me all of 7 seconds to find a criminal described by the police as a "natural-born loser" in a 1920 story in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The phrase was also used in a short story in the 1929 Ottawa Citizen. I could go on. — PolitiTweet.org

@AlecMacGillis I never knew Walter Tevis coined the phrase “born loser.”

Posted Dec. 29, 2020

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@awgaffney @lmlauramarsh Problem with that analysis is that we don't have a parliamentary system. And Democrats don't have Clement Atlee's 183-seat 1945 margin in Congress. If Biden had won in an Atlee-sized landslide, we would be having a different conversation. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 28, 2020

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@TimothyNoah1 @jackshafer @AlecMacGillis I found an older citation. William Jennings Bryan, mockingly referred to a "Willie Bryan" is described as a "born loser" in 1901. It's the bottom item in this clip: https://t.co/dLiNNNVCDU — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 29, 2020